Watering time of orchids

Mastering the timing of watering is a key issue, and there is no quick way to master it except patient observation and daily accumulated experience. Orchid watering can not specify when to water, should seize the best time to water. What is the best time to water, that is, when the basin is dry but not dry. The ancients had good experience in watering: "Lan Xi is moist and afraid of dampness, like to dry but afraid of dryness." It is very logical. There are different degrees of difference between "moist" and "wet", "dry" and "dry". Orchids should not be too dry or too wet. Too dry is dry, is the excessive lack of water, orchid growth will be frustrated; wet for too much water, will make the orchid root suffocate and rot. Dry and moist, that is, moderate moisture, is the favorite state of orchids. For example, for Chunlan and Cymbidium, there are "not dry in autumn and not wet in winter." Summary of experience.

The watering times of orchids are generally from March to April, once every 2-3 days, or once a day, once a day from May to June, once a day from July to September, once a day from October to November, and once a day from December to March. If you want to pour a lot of water at once in winter, you can pour it on cloudy and rainy days to prevent frost damage; because it will become ice if it is not watered in cloudy and rainy days. This is the law of watering in the Yangtze River basin. However, different regions have their own watering habits, such as the Lizhu flower bed in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. According to the old master, they only water three times a year. Indoors in Beijing, such as winter heating makes the air too dry, watering or less watering almost every day. Watering time, summer and autumn are best before sunset, so that the leaves can be dry before nightfall; winter and spring, before and after sunrise is the best. Orchid pots should be avoided in the sun, suddenly irrigated with cold water; the sudden cooling of basin soil will affect root water absorption and interfere with physiological balance.

When there is a thunderstorm in summer and the weather is muggy, clear water must be used to water the basin soil after the rain to remove the waste heat, otherwise it is easy to damage or even wither the Langen.